Brother: Oomathurai (real name – Kumaraswamy) & Sevathaiah.
Place: Panchalankurichi near Ottapidaram.
After 1781 & 1792 Carnatic treaties the British got the right to collect revenue from Panchalankurichi
Colin Jackson was appointed as the new Collector of Tirunelveli.
In 1798 Kattabomman fell into land revenue arrear of 3310 pagodas. Because of the famine, Kattabomman sent a letter to explain his situation.
Collector Jackson wanted to send a troop against Kattabomman but Chennai government instructed him to make a talk with Kattabomman.
So Kattabomman, his brother Oomathurai and his minister Sivasubramaniyam met Jackson on September 18, 1798.
Jackson found only 1080 pagodas were in arrear but he insulted Kattabomman & his minister and also tried to imprison them.
Kattabomman and Oomathurai escaped from there but Sivasubramaniyam got arrested. In the conflict some of the people died including British Lieutenant Clarke.
Kattabomman sent an explanation of incidents & Jackson’s rude behaviour to Governor Edward Clive.
As Clive ordered Kattabomman appeared before the enquiry council in Madras and acquitted from the Crime and British council dismissed Jackson and he replaced by S.R. Lousington.
In the meanwhile Marudhu brothers of Sivagangai, Gopal Nayak of Dindigul and Yadul Nayak of Anamalai formed a confederacy against company and Tiruchirapalli proclamation had been made.
Due the tactical position of Sivagiripalayam Kattabomman asked the Sivagiripalayar to join the confederacy but the Sivagiripalayakar, the ally of British neglected so Kattabomman moved towards Sivagiri to capture it.
Due to this movement British considered it as threat and Lord Wellesley declared war against the confederacy and also moved a troop towards Tirunelveli under Major Banerman.
Kattabomman met Marudhu brothers and returned to Panchalankurichi along with 1000 soldiers and he became the head of Eastern bloc of Palayakarars.
The company troop along with a troop of Raja of Travancore reached Panchalankurichi on 5, September 1799.
After several days of continuous attacks the fort fell down so the troops escaped to Kadalkudi.
At the Battle of Kolarpatti, British troops defeated Kattabomman and captured Sivasubramaniyam.
Kattabomman captured and handover to British from Kalapur forest by Vijaya Rahunatha Thondaiman, the king of Pudukkottai.
Sivasubramaniyam was executed at Nagalapuram on 13 September 1799.
Kattabomman was hanged to death at Kayatharu near Tirunelveli on 16 October 1799.
